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Practical working of a dryer; Formula for the calculation of the efficiency 

 of a cossette dryer, proposed by Rydlewski; Objectionable feature of 



dryers 187 



Analysis of fresh and dried pulp according to Brunehaut; Cost of plant... 188 



Steam drying; Steam dryer, illastrated and described 189 



The Thiesen dryer; The Heckmann dryer; Composition and appearance 



of the dried residuum; Average composition of dried cossettes 191 



Comparative analyses of dried cossettes and hay; Comparison between 



siloed and dried cossettes 192 



Active elements of fermentation 193 



Advantages of dried cossettes for feeding: Heat needed to evapo rate water 



drunk 194 



Vogel's experiments with sheep; Utilization of the force developed by the 



heart; Results showing the influence of the excessive water absorbed ... 195 

 Influence of water in ration on milk and weight of cows; Dried cossettes 



more hygienic than the siloed 196 



Dried cossettes more readily handled than the fresh or siloed; Mineral 



substances in the dried cossettes 197 



Conservation of dried cossettes; Change during keeping 198 



Digestibility of cossettes: Relative digestibility of fresh, dried, and siloed 



cossettes 199 



Redtiction in the -nutritive value of cossettes by keeping; Morgen's ex- 

 periments upon the digest ibility -of nitrogen; Precautions in feeding 



eossettes 200 



Complications caused by feedkig eossettes 201 



Quantity of dried cossettes to be fed; Experiments in feeding different 

 kiivds of cossettes; Composition of milk from cows fed on fresh or dried 



cossettes 202 



Comparative nutritive value of rations varied by addition of different beet 

 products; Comparative analysis of milk given when .different beet pro- 

 ducts were fed 203 



Three experimental rations fed to oxea 204 



Results of experimental rations; Experimental rations fed to six cows 205 



Experimental rations fed to ten sheep 207 



What is demonstrated by Maercker ami Morgen's experiments: Beneficial 



effect on horses fed with cossettes 208 



Actual economy in feeding dried cossettes; Rations for live stock 209 



CHAPTER IIL 



EARLY PREJUDICE nr THE UXITED STATES AGAINST FEEDIN-G CATTLE AVITH 

 SUGAR-BEETS ANP RESIDUUX COSSETTES. 



American experience in diffusion pulp utilization; Difficulty the Maine 



Beet Sugar Company had to contend with; Utilization of potato pulp. 210 

 Annoying prejudices against pulps and beets in the Northern States 211 



